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Meta on Trial—But Free Enterprise Is the Real Defendant
The Federal Trade Commission’s antitrust trial of Meta Platforms, Inc. — parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp — that commenced on April 14, 2025, in Washington, DC, has now […]
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The Penny Problem Has a Third Option: Buy Them Back (With Interest)
Adam Smith recognized the importance of the “make or buy” decision. It is the maxim of every prudent master of a family, never to attempt to make at home what […]
Supreme Court Delivers Parents a Partial Victory
Last month’s Supreme Court ruling in Mahmoud v. Taylor is a landmark victory for parental rights in education, reaffirming exactly 100 years after Pierce v. Society of Sisters (1925) that […]
New Yorkers Flirt with Socialist Grocery Store Scheme
Living in New York City is not easy. The Cato Institute ranks New York State as the least free state in the United States. On top of high state income […]
Do Low-Tax States Win More Stanley Cups?
For the fourth time in six seasons, the Stanley Cup is going to Florida, a state where the only ice is found in people’s drinks. During the Florida Panthers’ run […]
What Is the Jones Act—and Can It Be Fixed?
The Jones Act has been a staple of the American political landscape for over one hundred years. It has also created many unintended consequences.
Fed’s Bowman on the Risks of ‘Set It and Forget It’ Regulatory Culture
Federal Reserve Vice Chair for Supervision Michelle Bowman offered a pointed observation last week: some of the most consequential shifts in financial policy are not the product of deliberate votes […]
Populist Rage Against Credit Cards Will Backfire on Consumers
Last month, the Senate approved a version of the so-called GENIUS Act, meant to regulate stablecoins, that will now move on to the House. However, getting the bill over that […]
After Harvard: Dismantle the Infrastructure of Racial Preference
Conservatives are right to celebrate judicial victories, but they would be wise to remember that every courtroom fight is a rearguard action. A judicial victory arrives only after the political […]
The Merchant Republic: America at 249
Most nations are bound by tribe or throne. From the beginning, America pioneered to be different, the first nation founded on a proposition: that free people, left to their own […]
